
Going off-grid: miners turn to alternative power supply
A solar farm at Rio Tinto Group’s Gudai-Darri iron ore mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, in October 2023. Credit: Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg via
A solar farm at Rio Tinto Group’s Gudai-Darri iron ore mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, in October 2023. Credit: Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg via
Laura Benger, non-executive chair of the Australian charity Miners’ Promise. Credit: Laura Benger. A young father is killed after the loader he was driving plummets
Codelco’s Chuquicamata underground mine in Chile. Credit: ABB. Automation and digitalisation have been hot topics in the mining industry for some time, with different companies
Researchers at the University of Utah are testing their remote prospecting technique in the Spor Mountain range. Credit: Bryony Richards. Discovering new deposits of critical
A tailings dam and processing plant at a gold mine in Australia’s Northern Territory. Credit: Steve Lovegrove/Shutterstock. In 2019, when the Brumadinho tailings dam breached at the
Mine waste at Mineral Park mine, Arizona, US. Credit: University of Nevada, Reno. In the Peruvian Amazon region of Madre de Dios, the beauty of
Share this article Angola’s untapped resources include rare earths and other critical minerals. Credit: Shutterstock. Angola, the seventh-largest country in Africa, is most well-known for
Share this article Automation is making drilling and blasting operations safer and more efficient. Credit: Shutterstock. Automation in the mining industry has been burgeoning since
Share this article EDL’s hybrid renewable microgrid at the Agnew gold mine. Credit: EDL. In the rugged expanse of Australia’s mining territories, operators are pivoting